Cigarette-making machine



March 18, 1930. i M. ALLAND 1,751,121

CIGARETTE MAKING MACHINE Filed Jam. 8, 1929 Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITE srATEs FATE MAURICE ALLAND, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY CIGARETTE-MAKING- IVLACHINE Application filed January 8, 1929. -Seria1 No. 331,071.

The object of the invention is to provide improvements in machines for the manufacture of cigarettes, and particularly in a type which is adapted to be used by individuals in their homes, offices, etc-., the present invention comprising an improvement in the method of mounting the tray and associated parts,shown in copending application Serial No. 92,7 39.

In the device described in that application, it was necessary to withdraw the delivery tray lon itudinally from the body of the device in order to provide sufiicient room for the placing of an empty cigarette tube upon the hollow tobacco-ej ecting cylinder. In this instance the supports for the said tray are themselvesmounted upon a transversely re-. ciprocatory block, while upon said supports the tray is longitudinally'reciprocatory as in the earlier embodiment of the invention.

With this marked improvement in mind, the present invention comprises numerous details of construction fully brought out in the following description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the invention as applied to the device illustrated in said copending application; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same; and Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 44 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, a bracket 1 is provided with a plurality of vertically spaced arms 2, and is adapted to be removably secured to a table or the like 3, by means of a thumb-actuated clamping screw 4, extending through one of said arms. The upper por tion 5 of said bracket has removably secured to it a gear casing 6, in which are located the gears for transmitting manual or other power applied to a crank 10, through a connection 9 to a shaft 14, which latter is provided throughout substantially its entire length with a spiral flan e 15 forming a screw and by means of which tobacco within the superimposed hopper 21 is forced for a purpose hereinafter described. Said hopper is provided with a hinged cover 22, having a hollow knob handle 23.

The outer free end portion of the shaft 14 with its spiral flange 15 extends through a cylinder 25, which is adapted to receive an empty cigarette tube for the purpose of filling the tube with tobacco from within said hopper upon rotating said handle. To that end portion of the device opposite to the crank 10 there is secured a plate 26, to which is secured in turn an L-shaped bracket 27, one arm of which extends substantially parallel with the upper surface of the cylinder 25 and is provided at its outer end portion with a dependinghollow casing 28, in which is mounted, under spring pressure a vertically oscillatable bifurcated member 32, in which is rotatably mounted a roller 33 operative to bear against the upper surface of an empty cigarette tube surrounding said cylinder. From the upper" portion of the casing 28 there extends ascrew the purpose of which is to vary the tension or the roller 33 upon thecigarette tube above referred to. To the lower exterior portion of the device there are secured, first, a cupshaped member 38 for holding-a plurality of empty, flattened, or collapsed cigarette tubes, bearing any desired monogram, crest, or any other desired identifying emblem, and, secelongated style 40. This style is adaptedto Below said cylinder the plate 26 isenlarged downwardly and forwardly at 45 so as to provide oppositely positioned spaced, spiral undercut track grooves 46, the space between said grooves being closed at therear 47, and at their forward ends being spanned by a plate 48. having an aperture through which slidablyextends an actuating rod 49, carrying a manually engageable knob 50. The inner end of saidrod is secured to a block 51 which supports a plate 52, from which extend horizontally a pair of spaced parallel bars 53, which are also parallel with said cylinder 25 and 'slidabl'y support tubes 53', in turn connected together at their ends by plates 54 and 55. The outer of these plates extends upwardly above the level of the cylinder and 7 serves to abut against the otherwise open end of a cigarette tube, which latter normally protrudes freely beyond the end of said cylinder for the purpose of preventingthe first tobacco to'enter the tube from falling loosely therefrom. From both of these last-named plates 54 and 55 there extend downwardly the side walls 55 of a tray which hangs suspended in a general diagonal direction forwardly and downwardly, as shown in Fig. 4, and is pro- As the tobacco, unable to fall from the tube due to the presence of'the tray wall 55, fills said cigarette tube and as the screw continues to force moretobacco through said cylinder, the tube is forced outwardly along said cylinder, moving the tray with it until the entire length of the tube has been filled,after which it drops as a completed cigarette into the 7 tray, In order to vary the tightness with which the tobacco is packed within the cigarettewhen completed, the screw 37 is rotated in such manner as to vary the tension upon the roller 33 to bind the empty portion of the tube more firmly and therefore with greater friction against the surface of the supporting cylinder, with the result that it-requires more tobacco, to be forced into'the tube and with'greater compactness in order to cause the filled end'of the tube'to be forced ofi and away fromthe cylinder. However, the presence of the adjustable tensioning means is unnecessary to the operation of the other elements of the device including the improved method of supporting the cigarettereceiving tray. 7

Referring specifically to Figs. 2 and 4, it will be noted-that the laterally movable feature of the delivery tray makes it possible to manually engage the knob and shift the position of said tray laterally forward until the upwardly extending portion of the tray wall is clear of alignment with the cylinder 25, and thus makes possible the application of another empty cigarette tube to the cylinder 25 wtihout the necessity of otherwise having to withdraw said tray far outwardly upon its supporting arms or bars 53. Finally, after the new tube is in position for filling, the tray is returned laterally to its operative position and the act of filling the tube is effected as before described. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is I l. The combination of acylinder, adapted to besurrounded by a cigarette tube, a supand slidable laterally of said support and provided with a freely extending bar, and a receptacle longitudinally slidable upon said bar, to remainbeneath the said tube as it is being filled, said member b-eingmovable laterally to withdraw it from alignment with said cylinder, to facilitatethe positioning of an empty tube. 1

port for said cylinder having a track, a member slidably mounted upon said track and provided with a bar, and a receptacle having 7 a. wall normally extending into alignment with said cylinder, said receptacle being slid.- able longitudinally upon said bar, as a cigarette tube upon said cylinder is-being filled encounters and propels said wall, and said receptacle and its supporting bar being movable laterally free from said cylinder with said member, to permit th-epositioning 'ofan empty tube upon said cylinder. 7

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

MAURICE ALLAND- port for said cylinder, a member carried by 

